Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 18

Leftist Reading

Episode 54:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Lucy Parsons - 06:58
• Ella Reeve Bloor - 13:05
• Anita Whitney - 20:31

[Part 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Claudia Jones

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18 - This week]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE
First half -

[Part 19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE - Second Half

Footnotes:
1) 01:05
Oakley, op. cit., p. 6.

2) 01:39
Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, “The Manufacture of Housework,” in Socialist Revolution, No. 26, Vol. 5, No. 4 (October–December 1975), p. 6.

3) 05:34
Frederick Engels, Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, edited, with an introduction, by Eleanor Burke Leacock (New York: International Publishers, 1973). See Chapter II. Leacock’s introduction to this edition contains numerous enlightening observations on Engels’ theory of the historical emergence of male supremacy.

4) 08:47
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 12.

5) 09:45
Ehrenreich and English, “The Manufacture of Housework,” p. 9.

6) 10:19
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 12.

7) 10:41
Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 17.

8) 11:35
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 13.

9) 13:09
Ehrenreich and English, “The Manufacture of Housework,”p. 10.

10) 17:24
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Home: Its Work and Its Influence (Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, 1972. Reprint of the 1903 edition), pp. 30–31.

11) 17:45
Ibid., p. 10.

12) 18:09
Ibid., p. 217.

13) 20:39
DuBois, Darkwater, p. 185.